"The difficulty of providing for a high birth-rate in a settled community was appreciated by the ancient Greeks, notably by Plato and Aristotle; but their conclusions were swept aside by the warlike spirit of Rome, and the sentimentality of Christianity, so that only a few isolated thinkers showed any appreciation of them." [61]
[Footnote 51: Quoted in The Law of Births and Deaths, by Charles Edward
Pell, 1921, chap. xii.]
[Footnote 52: The Law of Births and Deaths, 1921.]
[Footnote 53: Ibid., p. 40.]
[Footnote 54: The Law of Births and Deaths, 1921, p. 41.]
[Footnote 55: Ibid., p. 40.]
[Footnote 56: Dr. John Brownlee, The Declining Birth-rate, p. 156.]
[Footnote 57: Malaria and Greek History, 1909, pp. 102 et seq.]
[Footnote 58: Ibid., p. 26.]
[Footnote 59: Ibid., p. 85.]